A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Texas is limiting the discussion regarding transgender people in 5 universities. It is now banned to acknowledge trans people exist in the classroom. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

The so-called “conservative” party - the one that claims to believe in limited government & hyperventilates constantly about the SOCIALISM of the radical leftist Democrats - now supports coercing government ownership stakes from private corporations & having control over their personnel decisions.

The Trump administration's illegal leak of my records — including my Social Security Number — to Jack’s campaign isn't just about me. It's about any veteran who's considering standing up, and the chilling effect this will have.

The Daily Caller is calling for violence. “I Choose VIOLENCE!" they write. "Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is... I want blood in the streets." They have a correspondent in the White House press pool. They are a prominent conservative media outlet. Their editor wrote the article.

Congrats again to the NYT for its laser focus on the serious threats to higher education, campus speech, & academic freedom. Truly, well done: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

“It’s unjust,” she said of the firings across the federal government this year, in an interview. “We have to stand up and insist the laws be followed.”

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

Portland is a peaceful, vibrant city with no need for federal agents on our streets. I urge Oregonians not to fall into Trump’s attempt to incite violence. Just as I did in 2020, I will lead our delegation and state officials to oppose any unjustified increase in federal forces.

Couldn’t be any more clear…

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

YES. Every time someone tells me”that’s never gonna happen” I just say LOOK AROUND. Was any of this possible 11 months ago? Chaos can indeed be a ladder.

Y’all. This is true. And it is so crazy.

Wow, you just never know when some random comment will take off on here. New record for me on something not *that* insightful. 😂 Glad people find it useful tho!

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

Well don't I feel stupid

This sounds crazy but it’s literally just a plain, accurate description. Again, like all the rest of the lawless authoritarianism, this Article III constitutional crisis is really an Article I constitutional crisis. Congress could end this nonsense at literally any time. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Some say Charlie Kirk did Politics the right way, that he was an authoritative champion of free speech and discourse. Part of that “Politics” is a 1200-person Professor Watchlist that’s led to harassment, censoring, cancellation campaigns, and death threats.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

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49% of high school girls said their mental health was not good most of the time or always during the COVID-19 outbreak – double the share of boys who said this (24%). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The Comey case will fail before trial, by jdgmt of a court that Trump will then pillory as tyrannical, driving violent threats against judges to skyrocket further. The cts can hold for a while. But soon they need actual members of Congress at their defense. For members are clearly next on the list.

Reforming the court is one of the most common visions for creating a functioning democracy in my interviews with a couple hundred diverse experts, including scholars, practitioners, & civil society folks for a book project.

Agree. The current SCOTUS—openly corrupt (Thomas, Alito), nakedly unrepresentative (last Dem to appoint a Chief Justice=Harry Truman; GOP-appointed majority for 55+ years), cowering to Trump (John "Roger Taney" Roberts)—has failed to stand up for rule of law. Needs to be central issue.

I'm no lawyer, but I just don't think there's any way to understand the Court's majority as part of a coherent and legitimate tradition of legal interpretation. It's part of a conspiracy against the republic, happening out in the open and with impunity.

4PM Today (Friday, Sept 26): Protest at the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines in support of Dr Ian Roberts. Dr Roberts was detained by ICE in Des Moines and, apparently, driven to an ICE facility in Council Bluffs.

The current scotus, illegitimately dominated by Republicans, seems certain to go down as the most shameful & lawless in history, and that’s an extremely high bar across the court’s long, sordid, mostly harmful history.

Supreme Court comes in to slap those uppity Democrats for not bending THE FUCKING KNEE TO THE KING.

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Make no mistake: public pressure works. But remember, Trump will still try to abuse his power to pressure CEOs and silence his critics. And the dominance of these media giants is still a major problem. So to everyone who made a difference today, stay in the fight.

The James Comey paradox

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

Good chatting with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social this morning

society can not function when jackbooted thugs arbitrarily arrest people who educate our kids

From Perry Bacon, Jr. newrepublic.com/article/2009...

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

You'll nEvEr BeLiEvE who's in the Epstein files www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

What would a couple of hundred billion dollars do for housing in the US?

Bob Dylan sang this in 1963. Imagine how Trump would respond to these lyrics "And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'll follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead"

Conservative media figures have called Argentina's far-right President Javier Milei an inspiration and treated his brutal austerity programs as a model for the US. Now, the country's economy is in free fall and Trump might offer Milei a bailout. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

What the hell is this theater review for a genocidal maniac, @apnews.com?

He forgot to mention that Israel has murdered Americans & Europeans in cold blood too. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Good for him but this is the stupidest outcome: the case was thrown out because there's a six month time limit for when charges can be filed, but they were filed six months and a day after the event. (It apparently took four months to realize this?)

you win if you fight

And yet there are still some fancy folks who insist that mainstream corporate media is what everyone should follow, when it's actually a gaslighting operation.

Going independent has meant having the freedom to say that ICE is kidnapping people, to describe our government as authoritarian, and to say more directly when fascism is happening. I hope we'll start to see this more in large newsrooms before it's too late.